Re: prodos utility question

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On 25 Dec 1996 14:50:50 GMT, be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz)
wrote:

>When I use a prodos utility like copy2+ to catalog disks
>I get often NOT A PRODOS OR DOS DISK.
>That doesnt say much.
>Is there a utility which goes one step further and would tell me
>what I have? like Pascal or what?
>Possibly even read the pascal directory (if there is something like that).

Try checking the disk for errors (or, as Copy ][+ would say, Verifying
a disk).  If it comes up almost totally errors, you are either looking
at a broken of protected disk.

Apple's System Utilities says it wil will catalog DOS 3.2, DOS 3.3,
ProDOS, Pascal, and CP/M disks.  If you're adventurous, you may even
want to search for a moved DOS 3.3 directory.  This involves a sector
editor, but if ya wannu, read on:  Look at Track 17 ($11), sector 0
($0).  Next, look at bytes 1 & 2.  They may tell you what track and
sector the directory is on.


In the Feb. '83 issue of Softalk, in the Dostalk section, Bert Kersey
said that on a DOS 3.3 disk, on track $11, sector 0, byte 0 is 4.
Does anybody know why?
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